Ah, I’ll put in a zoom feature, that’s a good idea!

Remind me of the hardware you’re running on? 22 hours for a 4k HDR movie sounds about in the ballpark for converting on CPU. I’ve just switched to Linux (Mint, not Cachy) and I think there’s an issue with detecting GPU on Linux, so this’d track (or you have Precision Mode enabled) - if you see “libx265” or “libx264” in the top right, you’re on CPU. I’m looking into this one.

Can I ask which version you downloaded? I’ll look into the DVTools/MP4box issue.

Also, yes, I removed the codec and container selection boxes - it’s HEVC/MKV by default unless you go for “Compatibility Mode” in which case you get H.264/MP4. “Preserve AV1” of course preserves AV1 which is incompatible with MP4 so they’re mutually exclusive.

So… How’s it working? 😅 (Just realised it’s been a while since I’ve touched HISTV and this came to mind, I’ve been working on my business and day job)

Yeah, I’m really glad I’m not in corporate IT anymore. Having to manage BYOD was a transition, having to manage Bring Your Own Model is kind of a nightmare.

LLMs will never be people

Boy oh boy, you’re not gonna like this one bit: https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-become-people-excavating-the-legal-evolution

(To be clear, I understand you think you covered this with “computers may be” but my point is different: the law is often dumb and you would be amazed at what politicians who don’t understand tech - or get paid not to understand it - will pull off)

Edit: Downvotes from people who missed the point. You can’t say “LLMs will never be people” because you simply can’t guarantee your/our lawmakers won’t be that stupid.

I watched Quantum Leap with my dad when I was a kid. You’re gonna try and tell me I’m not writing this reply on Ziggy?

Ah, what version did you try? This is due to issues with the renderer, but I just got this fixed by disabling GPU drawing for the form last night. Give 2.5.9 a go 😊

When Reddit started, Spez and Aaron made “sock puppet” accounts to make the site seem more active than it was, because you have to have what looks like an active user base to attract more users.

Now, after Reddit has gone public, they need the appearance of lots of users to attract advertising dollars and keep their stock price high, and there’s no need to operate sock puppets by hand anymore because of LLMs - they can be the sock puppets, and if you have enough of them acting human enough, it doesn’t even matter if some people realise or if one gets called out as a bot.

This also has the extremely useful benefit of steering society slowly towards the ideology of the billionaire, by having those bots normalise hate in the tsunami if messages they post.

I think the account you interacted with was an LLM, not even a real troll.

Dammit I miss having raw semiliquid sugar encapsulated in more, solid (also, more solid) chocolate-flavoured sugar. Guilty pleasure, plus nostalgia?

From Software patched the original Dark Souls PC port to remove Games For Windows Live when that service shut down, replaced it with steam networking. This was years and years before the remaster, so they weren’t making money on it - they just up and fixed it. MMOs? A bunch of unpaid modders brought up the first WoW custom servers, and some of those were reverse engineered.

Your argument doesn’t pass the “just look and see if it’s true” test.

That’s not “a very common way to see it”. It’s the way it is.

Facts are independently measurable; there the same for everyone, you always get the same data; there are no exceptions. As you said in another comment, objective reality is what remains true regardless of reference frame.

Opinions are not independently measurable. Once you have a measurement that holds true across reference frames, you have a fact.

Objective reality is treated as superior to subjective reality because it’s more useful. Subjective reality can be “better” in certain circumstances though, for example as an escape for a mind - abandon your observations of objective reality and replace them with something preferable.

You have to accept the meanings of words in order to have a meaningful debate about the concepts they carry.

Hey, I haven’t made a full post about this yet, but I thought you’d like to know: v2.5.0 is out, and it implements quietvoid’s tools for DoVi support! https://github.com/obelisk-complex/histv-universal/releases

It’ll even handle DV 5 and 7 😊

I’ve been thinking about the longer stops and I don’t hate it. Being forced to get up and move around sounds kinda pleasant, if I’m honest.

I’m planning a road trip and I saw over $7 around Vegas just yesterday. And this ain’t even the top.

Yes, it does imply it. It’s the most common association for mushroom clouds in our media since the bombs were dropped. Doesn’t guarantee it of course, but to act as though “they’re unrelated and anyone making the association is ignorant” would be an indefensible position.

You totally can though. It’s a common phrase.

Sweet as, lmk if you have any questions or run into any issues! 😊

This is how I know I’m old. I consider the “Reddit API debacle” recent history.

Whether it’s an alternative depends on what you use Handbrake for. HISTV can’t convert ISO or rip discs, it only converts video files. If you just use Handbrake to get smaller videos, HISTV will work for you without having to use more controls than it would take to launch the space shuttle 😅

Thanks for your patience, took me a minute to get my VM up and running so I could test the Flatpak, but it’s working and with no permissions: https://github.com/obelisk-complex/histv-universal/releases/tag/v2.3.6

By which I mean “Replace source” works out of the box with no permissions; in order for “Place next to source” output to work, you’ll have to give permission to the folder via flatseal (as you noted).

I’ve got a few more updates to make - I’m simplifying the UI a little, and I’m adding the ability to transcode AV1 - and then I’ll work on getting it building entirely offline in order to submit it to the Flathub store for review. Great suggestion, I appreciate it! (👉ﾟヮﾟ)👉

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